Married; Abt. 1685

Died: Bef. 27 May 1737 Dublin, Ireland 

WIFE

Sara Alexander
d. bef. 1699 

CHILDREN

1. James Fenner
    b. Abt. 1686

2. Elizabeth Fenner
    b. Abt. 1687
    married Parry before 1607

3. Alexander Fenner
    b. Abt. 1689

4. Edmund Fenner
    b. Abt. 1692

5. Susanna Fenner
    Abt. 1694
    m. Johnstone

6. Mary Fenner
    Abt. 1697

7. William Fenner
    b. Abt. 1699

Richard Fenner
by Chase Brooke
Apr 2021

Richard Fenner married Sarah Alexander around 1685. When Sarah's brother, Edmond Alexander, wrote his will on 17 May 1706 he left the bulk of his estate to his "Dearest Fenner's children," indicating they were all under the age of 21.  At that time only Elizabeth was married and James was old enough to be named as an executor along with his father, Richard Fenner. (1)  By the time his father-in-law, James Alexander, wrote his will in 1699, Sarah, the wife of Richard Fenner, was deceased. In this will James Alexander clearly states that Richard Fenner is his son-in-law. (2) After his death, his son Edmond Alexander became guardian of the younger Alexander children. Sarah Alexander's sister, Hannah Alexander, married John M'Clelan about 1706 and as a new member of this family, John M'Clelan apparently did not approve of the settlement of the estate.  He took over the guardianship of the two youngest children on 9 Apr 1706. 
Edmond Alexander wrote his will about a month later on 13 May 1706.  In  this will he is obviously quite angry over the treatment he has received from his siblings.  He left his sister Hannah 5s 5p to buy her husband a glass eye. To his brother Richard Alexander he left 5s to buy his guardian a rattle.  To his brother John Alexander he also left 5s. to buy him some understanding in the future.  Everything else was left to  his sister Fenner's children. (2) Edmond appointed Richard Fenner and his son James Fenner as his administrators.
The case of John M'Clelan husband of Hannah Alexander was bought to court a year later on 20 Sep 1707.  It was adjudged that the will of James Alexander was ineffectual, on the grounds that Richard Fenner and Edmond Alexander had suppressed the truth in connection with it. (3) Hannah Alexander M'Clelan was adjudged administrator of the estate of her father. (4)
However, the family was also being sued by The Government & Company for making Hollowford Blades in England.  This suit was brought 16 May 1707  vs Edmond Alexander, Richard ffenner, John McCleland and Hannah his wife, Richard Alexander, John Alexander, etc. (5) This suit must have been hard even though they were being sued as a family as the Alexander children were split in half.  Richard Fenner and his brother-in-law Edmond Alexander on one side and all the rest of the children on the other.  When Edmond Alexander died in 1716 Richard Fenner probably lost all contact with the Alexander family.
Richard Fenner was often involved in some law suit or other.  They began on 4 Feb 1689 and the last one was 28 Jul 1736.  (6)
Richard Fenner of Dublin, Gentleman wrote his will on 28 Jun 1734 naming his children. (7)  He was buried 27 May 1737. (8) The estate was probated 7 Jun 1737.

Sources

(1) Will of Edmund Alexander written 13 May 1706  proved 27 Jun 1716
Memorials of the Earl of Stirling and of the house of Alexander, pg 146
also Will of Edmond Alexander on Ancestry.com

Item, I give & bequeath to my sister, Hannah Alexander, alias M'Clelan, the sum of five shillings and five pence, to buy her husband a glass eye, and this with the consent of her three counselors, Elizabeth, Richard & Jenny Jones. Item, I give and bequeath to my brother, Richard Alexander, the sum of five shillings, to purchase his guardian a Rattle.  Item, I give and bequeath to my brother, John Alexander, the sum of five shillings; I intended him ye best share of what I had, but as he has turned me from being his guardian, so I now do him with this give shillings to buy him more understanding in the future.  Item, I leave Mrs. Jones my pardon for her perjury about my Father's will, & hope she may heartily repent and make her peace with God.

"Item, I will that all my substance be equally divided amongst my dearest sister, Fenner's children; yt is, to James, Alexander, Edmond, William Fenner, & to Elizabeth Fenner, alias Parry, Susanna, and Mary Fenner, to be paid them at the age of one-and-twenty, & if any of them dye before they arrive at that age, ye share of such child or children to be equally divided amongst the raining children of my sister Fenner.

I do appoint Richard Fenner and his son James Fenner to be executors of this my last will. 

(2) Will of James Alexander written 25 Dec 1699
Memorials of the Earl of Stirling and of the house of Alexander, pg 142

"and do desire that all my worldly substance may be equally divided amongst my four children--viz., my sons Edmond, Richard, & John, and my daughter Hannah, and if any of them dye before they be fitt to receive their portions, I desire that the portion of such child or children that shall so dye may be divided amongst those of them that shall survive, & because I am at an uncertainty about my son-in-law, Richard Fenner, whose portion I designed to be paid him out of the debt due to my upon the estate of Edmond Blanchville, of the county of Kilkenny, Esq., the same seeming to be in hazard if the said Blanchvill be not restored, and if so, I desire that he may come in for a share as the rest of my children, besides one hundred sterling, with the interest thereof, that I left with the said Richard Fenner when I went out of this kingdom, beginning of the late warr, and which he lent out and took bond to Audley Mervin, Esq, and I do hereby appoint the said Richard Fenner, and my son Edmond Alexander, to be executors of this my last Will, praying & enjoyning that they take special care that my three younger children by my second wife, be well secured their portions till they come to age to make use thereof themselves."

(3) Memorials of the Earl of Stirling and of the house of Alexander, pg 145

John M'Clelan, husband of Hannah Alexander, daughter of James Alexander by his second wife, disputed the validity of the will, which became the subject of a protracted suit. On the 20th September 1707, it is set forth in the Grant Book of the Prerogative Court that Marmaduke Coghill, commissary of that Court, had adjudged the will ineffectual, on the grounds that Richard Fenner and Edmond Alexander had suppressed the truth in connection with it. A decree was consequently granted, that the affairs of the deceased should be administered by Hannah M'Clelan, alias Alexander, and Edmond, Richard, and John Alexander, lawful children of the deceased.

(4) Administrations, Dublin Ireland fhl film 596141 image 50

Alexander, James, Dublin Gent.
To Hannah MClenan alias Alexander (wife of John MC-- of Dub. Gent. A daughter
Admon granted the 20 day of September 1707

(5) Chancery Court Cases, Dublin, Ireland, involving Richard Fenner and the Alexander family

30 Jan 1706 Edward Ludlow vs Edmond Alexander, Richard Fenner, John McCleland and Hannah his wife, Richard Alexander and John Alexander

16 May 1707 The Government & Company for making Hollowford Blades in England vs Edmond Alexander, Richard ffenner, John McCleland and Hannah his wife, Richard Alexander, John Alexander, etc.

(6) Chancery Court Cases, Dublin, Ireland,  involving Richard Fenner

4 Feb 1689 John Buth gent. vs Richard Fenner, etc.

28 Jul 1736 Dobson, vs Richard Fenner, etc.

(7) Will of , Richard Fenner, Gentleman  28 Jun 1734
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(8) Irish Genealogy

Burial of Richard Fenner